CBS Radio
The Mercury Theatre on the Air

The War Of The Worlds

written by H.G. Wells (1898)

Adapted by Howard E. Koch

directed and narrated by

Orson Welles

Performed and broadcast live
as a Halloween episode 

at 8 p.m. on Sunday, October 30, 1938, over 

the Columbia Broadcasting System radio network

Cast :

Orson Welles – Narrator, Pr. Richard Pierson

& Himself

Dan Seymour – Announcer 

Paul Stewart – First & Third Studio Announcer

William Alland – Meridian Room Announcer

& Field Artillery Gunner

Frank Readick – Reporter Carl Phillips

& 2X2L Radio Operator

Carl Frank – Second Studio Announcer

& Fascist Stranger

Ray Collins – Mr. Wilmuth,  Mr. Harry McDonald

& Fourth Studio Announcer

Kenny Delmar – Policeman at Wilmuth farm,
Captain Lansing, Secretary of the Interior

& Bayonne Radio Operator

Richard Wilson – Brigadier Gen. Montgomery Smith, 22nd Field Artillery Officer

& Langham Field Radio Operator

Stefan Schnabel – Field Artillery Observer

Howard Smith – Lieutenant Voght

William Herz – Newark Radio Operator

& 8X3R Radio Operator 

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